Index genre headings
We have several customers that use genre headings (655 field) to find materials. For example, "video recordings for the hearing impaired" helps deaf and hard-of-hearing customers locate DVDs with closed captioning. This is not a searchable field in Vega and there does not seem to be a way to find this information anywhere on the record.
Elizabeth Berg
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Jamie Naylor
commented
We recently migrated ILS (Sierra > Polaris) and moved to Vega Discover Premium.
A patron reached out to us because they were able to locate DVD/Bluray records that had subtitles when we had the Sierra WebPAC, but it does not seem to be available in Vega Discover Premium.
I was able to use the advanced search for video recordings for the subject: hearing impaired the in the Polaris PowerPAC, though we're trying to keep our patrons in one catalog.
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Maya Espersen
commented
Genres are often the main way patrons search for fiction in the catalog, so this is incredibly important to have indexed.
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Miriam Gloger
commented
Genre headings are an important way to find and navigate fiction, more importantly, it is a functionality from classic webpac that should not be lost